Category: Crime Fiction

W.H. Auden: “Detective Story”

From  W.H. Auden (1907-1973), a poem about crime (fictional and real): Detective Story by W.H. Auden For who is ever quite without his landscape, The...

Janet Maslin on Elmore Leonard

A tribute to Elmore Leonard, from Janet Maslin, here — Elmore Leonard – A Man of Few, Yet Perfect, Words “His characters, as ever, were...

Elmore Leonard Dies in Detroit

Elmore Leonard was perhaps the best post-war American crime novelist:  Elmore Leonard Dies in Detroit. His style — tight, auricular, clean, dead-on dialogue — has left...

Why read White Collar Wire?

This is a blog about business crime. We post stories about news, cases, judicial opinions, practical tips and scholarly work regarding white-collar criminal and civil...